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The Know-Nothing President

Last week, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Dianne Feinstein, announced that President Obama didn’t know the United States was collecting communications data of allied leaders. In other words, Sen. Feinstein is suggesting that our intelligence agencies do not clue in the President to what sort of intelligence the United States government is gathering. Let that one sink in for a sec.

Sen. Feinstein is claiming that the President of the United States was unaware of his executive branch intelligence agencies spying on fellow heads of state. That’s akin to openly acknowledging that the President’s subordinates act without his approval, rendering the Obama Presidency either completely ignorant or hopelessly impotent.

Entertaining the idea that the man in charge of the United States’ security and relationships with our allied nations would be unaware that his subordinates are spying on allied world leaders can be nothing but a lie concocted to protect the President from the political fallout of his administration’s abusive overreach.

Worse is that this not some one-time freak incident where supposedly a rogue administrator acted without President Obama’s authorization, but rather this incident is the continuation of a disturbing trend of “Oops, ughhh…I didn’t know about that” moments throughout his presidency.

All presidents’ administrations tend to leave their bosses some room for plausible deniability, but either Barrack Obama is the most out-of-the-loop Chief Executive in our history, or he needs to start taking some notes during all of those meetings he’s pictured in:

Let’s review his more prominent “I dunno” moments from the past few years:

Apparently no one thought to tell the President that healthcare.gov had failed its preliminary testing before its launch. If they had, he might not have said: "You can go to the website. You can check it out… You can sign up next week. You can sign up next month…See for yourself what the prices are. See for yourself what the choices are.”- President Obama, 9/26/13.

The IRS was apparently targeting Tea-Party groups all by itself because the President didn't know about a report detailing the malicious targeting of liberty-minded groups. If that report hadn’t been “leaked” would anyone have told him?

The White House also had no idea that the DOJ seized the phone records of Associated Press reporters. I guess Eric Holder was just making sure the mainstream media keep saying nice things about his boss.

Jay Carney claimed that the President found out about Operation Fast and Furious through the media. Presumably this was the face he made when he saw the news reports:

President Obama wasn’t informed of an FBI investigation into Gen. David Petraeus’ email account until just two days before Election Day 2012, whereas Eric Holder knew months beforehand (he seems to know everything the President doesn’t). Since the President apparently isn’t keeping track of the DOJ, the IRS, or the NSA, it would actually make sense that he wouldn’t know what the FBI is up to.

And of course, the President seemed surprised to find that after implementing the “Stimulus,” there were no “shovel-ready jobs.” I personally blame that one on his ignorance of basic economics. He should take the time to sit through FreedomWorks University’s econ 101 lectures.

Perhaps the President should spent more time with his cabinet and less time on the golf course, just to avoid appearing so dazzlingly ignorant of his administration’s operations. Then again, all the evidence indicates that meetings the President does attend tend to go like this:

Hey, I just had a thought. If the President is really left in the dark so often, maybe he actually believed people could keep their health insurance plans under Obamacare? It just might be possible that no one in his administration had the heart to tell him the truth, just like they lied to the American people. Right?

There is nothing deep or mysterious about President Obama. He is in reality a one dimensional personality and a habitual liar. He grew up with a silver spoon and in a fictional world he created to feel special and accepted. He attended a couple prestigious schools in Indonesia and Hawaii. From some of the stories slowly emerging he played the roll of a foreign prince and deadbeat only hanging out with socialists like Frank Marshall Davis. He parlayed those lies into college at Occidental, Columbia and Harvard. By all accounts he was a ghost in those schools because he again sought out socialist students and professors so wasn't known to the main campus groups. From there he went to Chicago as a Community Organizer - a socialist do gooder and bully. He taught at the very liberal University of Chicago and again hung out with the likes of Bill Ayers and other socialists. He participated in socialist foundations where everyone had the same goals. He moved to the State legislature where he was mostly present. From there he went to the Senate where he again hung out with the radical fringe and gave a few speeches but spent most of his time campaigning for President. The man has been surrounded by like minded socialists all his life and that continues to this day. He has no experience with conservatives and has never had to compromise. Therefore he replaces anyone who disagrees because it is all he knows. Since most of his life is basically a series of lies he continues to lie with impunity.

It was reported that, unlike Pres. Bush, Pr. Obama does not get up in the morning to attend the intelligence briefings. It seems obama does not take his required duties seriously. I believe that in his mind turning the U. S. into a broke and feckless western european nation state is his top priority.

Please..let us not forget, while we have this wonderful technology to use for activism in our lives, the no - nothing President , with a word, does have the authority to shut the internet down, and take everyone's Freedom of Speech away. Jeff Frank

Though Healthcare.gov doesn't open for business until November 15, the spin for the second open enrollment period for ObamaCare has already begun. More than a year after the disastrous rollout of the federal Exchange, which our insurance-salesman-in-chief, President Obama, said users would have a shopping experience similar to Kayak, Orbitz, or Amazon, the administration agencies overseeing the website are already downplaying expectations:

Lois Lerner really doesn't want to answer questions about her role in the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative and Tea Party organizations. The former head of the powerful tax agency's Exempt Organization Division refused to testify in front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in May 2013, invoking her Fifth Amendment rights.

Reauthorization of the U.S. Export-Import Bank is one of the few agenda items that Congress is expected to address when legislators return from their summer break. The Export-Import Bank, which provides financing for foreign buyers of products from U.S. based companies, needs Congressional approval by September 30 to continue its operation.

On Tuesday, the 2nd circuit Federal Appeals Court in New York heard oral arguments on the legality of the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of metadata. Specifically, the case (ACLU v. Clapper) addresses government collection and storage of Americans' phone records – what phone number was called and the duration of the call.

The Obama administration has continuously defended the NSA’s bulk collection of metadata on Americans. President Obama says that it’s not that big of a deal. "When it comes to telephone calls, nobody is listening to your telephone calls,” he says. The Director of National Intelligence James Clapper equates it to simply reading the Dewey Decimal System on the cover of a library book.

Democracy and Power 105: The Politician seeks power
To some people, government appears as a vast reservoir of power which inspires them to dream of what use might be made of it. They have favorite projects of various dimensions which they sincerely believe are for the benefit of mankind. They are thus disposed to recognize government—an instrument of passion, the art of politics to inflame and direct desire. - Michael Oakeshott, English political philosopher 1901-1990

Last week, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) re-introduced a bill to protect Americans from unauthorized government spying, the USA Freedom Act (S. 2685). After the House passed a dangerously watered-down version of the bill earlier this year, the new Senate bill represents a compromise - much stronger than the House bill, though not as comprehensive as privacy activists might desire.

In a troubling expansion of government snooping, a New York judge ruled Thursday that Microsoft has to open its servers to federal investigators. What’s concerning in this case is that the servers in question are not on U.S. soil—they are located in Ireland. In pursuit of information from Microsoft, the federal government pulled Microsoft into court to argue over the government's power to act through a warrant to access information stored on the company’s overseas servers.